People who make a difference

Nathan Bartley is the President of Cuthbert Smith Group, bringing over 20 years of progressive leadership experience across estimating, project delivery, business development, and executive operations in construction and water infrastructure. His career — built on the other side of the table as an owner, operator, estimator, and contractor — includes leading teams that secured and executed over $500 million in infrastructure work, including the $75 million Inglewood Sanitary Trunk, Calgary’s largest micro-tunneling project at the time.

Nathan holds a Mechanical Engineering Technology diploma from NAIT and a Construction and Project Management Certificate from the University of Calgary, a CEC designation from CIQS, and is a Certified Engineering Technologist (CET) with ASET Alberta. As President, he is focused on expanding the firm’s client base, deepening its service capabilities, and leveraging a contractor’s perspective to deliver cost advice where it has the most impact — an understanding of how clients think, what lenders need, and where value can be created.

Joel Eckert is a Director of Cuthbert Smith Group and one of the firm’s most experienced practitioners, with over three decades of construction cost management expertise across both the public and private sectors in Western Canada. He completed the Construction Engineering Technology program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in 1993 and has spent his career at the intersection of project finance, cost control, and client relationships.

Joel holds credentials as a Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS) and Certified Engineering Technologist (CET), with active membership in the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS) — Prairies and NWT, and ASET. His strengths lie in cost planning, project finance monitoring, building inspection, and mortgage monitoring — and he is recognized for the depth of his client relationships and the consistency of his advice, qualities that have made him a trusted partner to some of Calgary’s most active developers and lenders over the past 30 years.

Chris Holden is a Director of Cuthbert Smith Group and leads the firm’s Edmonton operations. Having completed his training in the UK in 1987 and immigrated to Canada in 2000, Chris brings nearly four decades of construction industry experience — and an international perspective that continues to inform the quality of advice CSG delivers.

He holds the designation of Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS), is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), and is a member in good standing with CIQS — Prairies and NWT. With project experience across industrial, commercial, residential, healthcare, education, corrections, and P3 sectors, Chris’s strengths include cost control, life cycle costing, contract placement and review, quality control, post-contract monitoring, and P3 project structuring — and he is recognized by clients and colleagues alike for the precision and dependability of his cost advice.

Nathan Gerbrecht joins Cuthbert Smith Group as a Director, bringing nearly two decades of construction cost management experience across Canada and the United States. Based in Calgary, he specializes in lender services and construction phase monitoring, advising clients across the full spectrum of the Canadian Prairies construction market.

His project monitoring experience spans land servicing, industrial, commercial, healthcare, assisted living, P3, single-family to high-rise residential, and government-funded projects — protecting clients’ interests by identifying and advising on the risks inherent in real estate development. Nathan’s lender-side advisory expertise and extensive Prairie market experience complement CSG’s core service offering directly, bringing rigorous analytical instincts, a collaborative approach, and the independent, reliable advice clients expect from CSG.

Raymond Landry is a Quantity Surveyor at Cuthbert Smith Group, with two decades of construction cost management and loan monitoring experience in Western Canada. He completed SAIT’s Civil Engineering Technology program in 2005 and holds credentials as a Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS) and Certified Engineering Technologist (CET), with active membership in CIQS — Prairies and NWT, and ASET.

Raymond has built lasting relationships with lenders, developers, and institutional clients across Alberta, consistently delivering the thorough, timely reporting that keeps construction financing on track. He is particularly well-regarded for his loan monitoring work — from initial cost reviews through to final advance — and for the practical, no-surprises approach he brings to every file.

Hamza brings a well-rounded background in construction and cost management, with experience spanning project management and quantity surveying. This combination gives him both operational insight and financial expertise, allowing him to approach projects with a balanced and practical perspective.

Since joining Cuthbert Smith Group in 2023, Hamza has supported cost planning, cost control, budgeting, loan monitoring, and site inspections across all stages of project development, working closely with developers and financial institutions. Currently pursuing his PQS designation with CIQS, he is known for his attention to detail and proactive approach — delivering accurate, reliable cost advice while identifying risks and opportunities to support informed decision making.

David Whitehead is one of the founding partners of Cuthbert Smith Group and continues to serve in a consulting capacity, bringing over 35 years of international and Canadian quantity surveying experience to the firm’s most complex engagements. Trained in the UK, he joined RICS in 1990, immigrated to Canada in 2003, and founded CSG — building it into one of Western Canada’s most respected independent cost management firms.

In his consulting role, David provides senior-level expertise on specialized assignments, drawing on deep experience in estimating, life cycle costing, tendering, contract review, post-contract control, and project monitoring. He holds the Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS) designation and maintains active membership with both CIQS and RICS.